RGB

3 Colours. 3 Galleries. 18+ Artists.

We are thrilled to announce RGB, an upcoming multi-gallery exhibition at The Handbag Factory, curated under a simple yet ambitious concept by ASC Exhibitions Director Darren O’Brien: three independent exhibitions coming together across three interconnecting galleries, each exploring a single core primary colour of the digital age.

RGB – Red, Green, and Blue – forms the foundation of modern digital colour. Every pixel on our computer monitors and smartphone screens relies on these three primary hues to generate our visual digital world. But the history of RGB reaches far beyond modern screens into the origins of physics, human perception, and light.

• 18th-Century Optics: Physicist Thomas Young first suggested that the human eye possesses three distinct wavelength-dependent cells. While identifying these photoreceptors took over a century, scientists today know that our perception of colour is as much about learned behaviour and context as it is about the physical spectrum of light.
• The First Colour Photo: In 1861, James Clerk Maxwell projected three separate single-colour slides (Red, Green, and Blue) of a single image together, creating what the human eye perceived as the world’s very first colour photograph.

At The Handbag Factory, light within comes in three distinct flavours. Each room in this exhibition presents contemporary artwork that tells its own narrative, diving into cultural colour associations, Freudian connotations, politics, gender, and the raw materiality of pigment.

The Exhibitions & Curators

Red Room

• Curated by: Katie Pratt & Raksha Patel
• Featuring Artists: Cristallina Fischetti, Danying Chen, Hannah Knox, Alex Veness, Allyson Keehan, Cathy Lomax, Howard Rogers, Katie Pratt, Laura White, Michael Ajerman, Raksha Patel, Richard O’Russa, Sohrab Crews, Clare Chapman, Umar Ahmed, Uzma Sultan, Rosemary Cronin, Yu Xiao, Ritu Sood, Sarah Kate Wilson & Anish Kapoor. 

Green Room

• Curated by: Scott McCracken & Pia Ortuño
• Featuring Artists: Alice Wilson, Dan Hays, Diana Puntar, Dieter Durinck, Helen Clarke, Kes Richardson, Tom Palin, Oliver Hoffmeister, Pia Ortuño, Samuel Domínguez, Scott McCracken & Shaan Syed.

Blue Room

• Curated by: Michael Coppelov & Magdalena Głuszak-Holeksa
• Featuring Artists: Magdalena Głuszak-Holeksa, Michael Coppelov, Adam Hennessey, Kaler Q Huang, Alastair Gordon, Jude Wainwright, Ella Reid, Ana Milenkovic, Kristian Evju, Iain Andrews & Karolina Albricht.

Visitor Information

Dates: 12th – 23rd November
Private View: 12th November | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Opening Hours:

• Weekdays: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Saturdays (14th & 21st Nov): 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: The Handbag Factory

We invite you to join us and experience how light, science, history, and contemporary art intersect across these three unique spaces.